Comments on: Twitter- I need an intervention, please

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:07:20 +0000

I’m with Jackie… It’s a tool… An incredibly useful one; so long as you don’t loose control of it…

I’ve never got as personal with it as some of my friends, for the reason that I’ve never wanted to get captured by it… I tend follow people for their content, not to start a relationship with them.

Possibly as a result, I don’t really get the ‘ego’ stuff…

As an aside, @Stephen Fry seems to be pulling in the names faster than ever before…

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By: Colm Brophy

Colm Brophy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:42:25 +0000

I haven’t used Friendfeed much but I believe it does go someway towards solving the overload problems. I saw Bret Taylor (the founder) talk at FOWA in London and he explained some of the work they’ve been doing to understand relevancy and recommendation for social media (as he said the aggregation of content is the easy bit). They seem to be coming up with pretty sophisticated systems which consider a lot of explicit, implicit, and semantic factors to help recommend what items in your firehose of feeds you’ll find interesting.

Video is here…http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/bret-taylor

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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:43:07 +0000

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By: Nigel Walsh

Nigel Walsh — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:16:06 +0000

I hear you – since it was on Jonathon Ross and Stephen Fry on Friday Night (http://www.socialmedian.com/story/2672221/stephen-fry-and-jonathan-ross-set-twitter-alight-telegraph), Phillip Scofield – everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.. new tools are neeed to help filter the noise..

I guess its down to discipline – I am generally unfollowing people, but do use tweetdeck to follow certain topics well, eg TechBlogs. Friend and then have all the other ‘all friends’ column slowy becoming less relevant..

I also log on less now with all the noise unless I get a DM or something. Most of my tweets are generated from social median….

There is a similar post here too: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/68628

It also goes back to one of the previous post – 10 reasons why I wont follow you on Twitter – http://mashable.com/2009/01/06/twitter-follow-fail/

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Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:39:38 +0000

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By: Darragh

Darragh — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:58:02 +0000

I’m here, funny enough, through a tweet from Eoghan McCabe.

Anton Mannering said something to me recently like Twitter being the equivalent of walking down a street and seeing someone you know and remembering that you had something to talk to about them. There was also another quote that said – “Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you’d like to know better”.

I find it interesting to hear what people I’d respect professionally are saying, and I follow them. I don’t expect replies, I use it more so as a blog post finder – especially following @bosca.

I also like the craic on it. I was bewildered to see me on the recent Irish blogs list and have taken to be ruthless about who I follow back. No opportunity for dialogue? No chance.